Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
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The Hour of the StarClarice Lispector
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Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn't our age coined the term "escapism," when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?
Jean Cocteau
Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
Maria Callas
“Hasn’t all this taught you anything?” Annette asked Gabriel Baines as they waited for the simulacrum’s return and report.
“Like what?”
“That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick
Whoever hasn’t yet arrived at the clear realization that there might be a greatness existing entirely outside his own sphere and for which he might have absolutely no feeling; whoever hasn’t at least felt obscure intimations concerning the approximate location of this greatness in the geography of the human spirit: that person either has no genius in his own sphere, or else he hasn’t been educated to the level of the classic.
Friedrich Schlegel
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
Saki
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